• Experience in soldering, making cables, bending metal sheets and making mockup units.

Antenna and Microwave Laboratory, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Research Assistant Aug 09 – Till Date

• Work mainly involves investigating reconfigurability for antenna applications on a NSF funded project . Work also includes simulation design of microstrip patch antennas using Ansoft Designer and Ansoft HFSS softwares, fabrication using an LPKF milling machine and radiation pattern measurements in an anechoic chamber.

Antenna and Microwave Laboratory, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Graduate Assistant Feb 09 - May 10

• Work includes grading students for graduate level courses like Antenna and Wave Propagation , Microwave Devices and Systems, RF Wireless Systems and undergraduate level courses like Electromagnetic Wave Theory, Signals and Systems.

• Research involves design of a novel cavity backed half Ψ-shape microstrip patch antenna with an L-shape feeding method and ground plane defects for wireless communications applications. The physical size of the antenna has been reduced approximately by quarter wavelength and contributed a wide impedance matching bandwidth of 56.57% with good directional radiation patterns within the frequency band (5.0GHz-11.0 GHz).

• The simulation results obtained from Ansoft HFSS software have been verified by measurements performed in an anechoic chamber at the Antenna and Microwave Laboratory located at San Diego State University.

• This project involves a basic study on method of moments in conjuction with the MATLAB software suite to simulate a microstrip patch antenna operating at 2.4GHz.

UNDER GRADUATE PROJECT

Effect of Length of Line Source On Overall Antenna Radiation Pattern

• The project mainly involves implementation of Taylor’s method of design of continuous line source antenna to investigate the effect of the length of the line source on the overall antenna radiation pattern characteristics. It had insignificant effect on the side lobe levels but showed considerable change in beamwidth.

• The project also includes design of arrays to produce narrow beams for point to point communications and also for high angular resolution radars.